@article{65498, 
year={2019},
issn={2239-7221},
journal={RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA'},
number={2 Suppl.},
volume={XI},
doi={10.3280/RISS2019-002-S1019},
title={Valorisation of urban green areas for producing renewable energy and biochar as growing substrate of Sicilian aromatic and nutraceutical species
in a circular economy},
abstract={This work is aimed at evaluating the possible building up of a gasifier for the energy valorisation of residual biomass deriving from urban areas and their surroundings. The area and the volumes of supply and economic convenience have been determined by implementing a GIS-based geographic method to the localisation and quantification of non-uniform elements of plant biomass. The pyrolysis and gasification processes of the lignocellulosic biomass obtained from pruning and maintenance operations of the urban and ornamental green include the production of a residual amount of biochar. The biochar can be used in agriculture as a soil improver and a substrate alternative to peat in the sustainable production of Sicilian aromatic and nutraceutical species grown in pots within a circular economy.}
url={http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/Scheda_rivista.aspx?idArticolo=65498},
author={Antonio Comparetti and Carlo Greco and Michele Massimo Mammano and Navickas Kestutis and Orlando Santo and Venslauskas Kestutis}
pages={299-314},
language={EN}}